children were on lockdown this afternoon. i have two small children and their schools were on lockdown responding to this tragedy. they re there, i m here hoping and praying that they are safe. but the truth is none of us is safe. that s senator rafael warnock of georgia on the senate floor yesterday addressing another mass shooting in america, this one at a medical center in atlanta. we ll have much more on the deadly attack and the senator s call to action in just a moment. also ahead the latest on the suspicious claims out of russia accusing ukraine of a drone strike on the kremlin. plus donald trump s legal team makes an odd choice for its defense strategy in a civil rape and defamation trial. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this thursday, may 4th. i m jonathan lemire, thank you for starting your day with us. we begin with the latest mass shooting in america this time in atlanta, georgia. at least five women inside a medical center there were shot,
in nevada. the senate race between katherine cortez masto and adam laxalt have a dead heat. i m neil cavuto. let s go to alexandra on what she s seeing in nevada. hi, neil. yeah. this thing has gotten a lot tighter than people anticipated at the start. this etching former president barack obama will be holding a rally at this high school behind he in north las vegas hoping to drum up some support among democratic voters. namely for senator katherine cortez masto who has served since 2017. she s now locked in what you call a dead heat with republican challenger adam laxalt. the latest poll has the two candidates tied. laxalt kicked off his bus tour. he said this a short time ago. everything we re experiencing today is a direct result of policy. $6 gas is not an accident. gas prices around $5 with inflation, crime have been major focus points for republicans. democrats continue to stress the issue of abortion here. last week senator bernie sanders came here to offer his s
bookends. if you get past the headlands and dig deeper, you uncover an insidious and intentional campaign, republican backed zones for flooding in favor of their candidates to create a narrative that republicans are surging in a rib wave is surging and inevitable. dana: democrats are doing their best to stop the red wave, former president obama zigzagging across the country. biden hasn t been seeing or high demand, but he has showed up in florida trending toward republicans. there under siege by our republican friends. and by the way, this ain t your father s republican party, it s a different deal right now. you ve been paying social security your life, your debt. these guys wanted to take it away. who in the hill did they think they are? excuse my language. end of the month, what you have left, no money, that s inflation. the things you need are going up in price. god bless you all, god protect our troops, and god give some of them are republican friends dana: for c
number will be the big factor to kind of look out for today. even tomorrow we have some main event data coming out, right? april s jobless claims data is set to also come through, rather the jobs report should i say is expected to come through there. 180,000 jobs are expected to have been added to the economy. at that stage you can tell the numbers are certainly declining from that 350,000 we saw a while back. certainly for now a bit of a muted start is what we re expecting to see from the market opening. the main event of of course this week was the federal reserve meeting yesterday. they announced another quarter point increase. it wasn t just that but what jerome powell the chairman said afterwards given a chance a number of times say, hey, we re going to pause the rate hikes and maybe this will be the right one, he didn t quite do that. walk us through what he said and the impact we re seeing on the markets. it s surprising, actually. the course of those interest rates was actu
dow down to 79 points. i only see this unfed meeting even when they wrap up the two day meeting in washington where ever expect to see the federal reserve raise interest rates again another 3-quart of its a point. hear from jerome powell the chairman as to how many more coming. hello, everyone i m dana perino. it s 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. dana: we only have one week to go and signs of a red wave are kind of getting bigger than ever. the final exception of the fox news power ranking shows dangerous territory for the democrats showing house majority decisive for about a about